Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The generation of young animals or plants.
- n. In botany, the development of an organ or a shoot from an organ which is itself normally ultimate, as a shoot or new flower from the midst of a flower, a frond from a frond, etc. Thus, a rose not unfrequently gives birth to a second from its center, a pear bears a leafy shoot on its summit, and species of Juncus and Scirpus emit small sprouts from their flower-heads. This is often a case of morphological reversion, the axis whose leaves were altered to make the flower resuming its onward and foliating tendency. Also
proliferation . Compareproliferous . - n. Reproduction by division.
Wiktionary
- n. The generation of young.
- n. Reproduction by the growth of a plant, or part of a plant, directly from an older one, or by gemmae.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The generation of young.
- n. Reproduction by the growth of a plant, or part of a plant, directly from an older one, or by gemmæ.
Examples
“Under the term prolification of the fruit two or three distinct kinds of malformation appear to have been included.”
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
“From these considerations it would appear better to abandon the use of the expression prolification of the fruit, as unnecessary where it is really applicable, and as delusive in the numerous other cases where it is employed.”
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
“Married pairs enjoy similar communications with each other as in the world, but more delightful and blessed, yet without prolification; in the place of which they experience spiritual prolification, which is that of love and wisdom, n.”
“_Married partners enjoy similar communications with each other as in the world, but more delightful and blessed, yet without prolification; in the place of which they experience spiritual prolification, which is that of love and wisdom.”
“The reason why marriages in the heavens are without prolification, and that in place thereof there is experienced spiritual prolification, which is that of love and wisdom, is, because with the inhabitants of the spiritual world, the third principle -- the natural, is wanting; and it is this which contains the spiritual principles; and these without that which contains them have no consistence, like the productions of the natural world: moreover spiritual principles, considered in themselves, have relation to love and wisdom; therefore love and wisdom are the births produced from marriages in the heavens.”
“Even trying to cause the prolification of nuclear weapons.”
“But I must tell you that the vicar of Jambert ascribed this copious prolification of the women, not to that sort of food that we chiefly eat in Lent, but to the little licensed stooping mumpers, your little booted”
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
“Owing to the vagueness with which the word has been applied by various authors, it becomes very difficult to ascertain whether the recorded instances of chloranthy were really illustrations of what is here meant by that term, or whether they were cases of mere virescence (green colour, without other perceptible change), or of prolification (formation of adventitious buds).”
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
“In direct proportion, then, to the degree in which one region of the axis or certain branches of a plant are devoted to the formation of flower-buds to the exclusion of leaf-buds, is the frequency with which those flowers become affected with floral prolification.”
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
“Among _Rosaceæ_, the change in question is very common, especially in conjunction with an elongation of the axis of the flower (apostasis) and with prolification, though it is by no means always co-existent with these malformations.”
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
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